January 9 – March 23, 2014
Rob Hornstra, Adler, Sochi Region, Russia, 2011. © Rob Hornstra, courtesy Flatland Gallery NL/Paris. From The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, 2013)
Rob Hornstra, Mikhail Zetunyan, Eshera, Abkhazia, 2009. © Rob Hornstra, courtesy Flatland Gallery NL/Paris. From The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, 2013)
Rob Hornstra, Dima, Matseta, Sochi Region, Russia, 2009. © Rob Hornstra, courtesy Flatland Gallery NL/Paris. From The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, 2013)
Rob Hornstra, Bolshoi Dome, Sochi, Russia, 2010. © Rob Hornstra, courtesy Flatland Gallery NL/Paris. From The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, 2013)
Rob Hornstra, Amina, Levashi, Russia, 2012. © Rob Hornstra, courtesy Flatland Gallery NL/Paris. From The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, 2013)
Photographer Rob Hornstra and journalist Arnold van Bruggen documented the rapidly-changing region around Sochi, a former Soviet resort on the Black Sea, while it prepared to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. The extraordinary photos, together with interviews and films, record a complicated mix of parallel realities as a massive but temporary international event descends and disappears.
Learn more about The Sochi Project at www.thesochiproject.org.
The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus was organized by the DePaul Art Museum in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition was provided by a grant from the Mondriaan Fund. The exhibition prints were made at Latitude in Chicago and partially funded by Hahnemühle Fine Art. We extend special thanks to Charles Suchar, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at DePaul University, and to the Department of History, co-sponsors of the exhibition.